The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-18
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.
STEPNIAK, the celebrated Nihiist author, will
visit the United States in September.
Mr.. JOHN G. WHITTIER has never been fur
further than Washington from his home in
Amesbury, Mass.
FROM the May salary of New York city
school teacher who receives $500 year there
was deducted one cent because she had one day
been tardy two minutes.
GENERAL IMBoDEN, Of Confederate cavalry
fame recently stated in letter that if Virgin
las mineral wealth had been as fully developed
In 1880 as now there would have been war.
AK, the Honolulu Chiraman who was lately
swindled out of ST. 900 by King Kalakaua, is
completely Frustrated. both bodily and mentally,
and II he RECEIVERS bankruptcy stares him in the
face.
A DELAWARE man rolled off his We randa to
the ground. distance of twentyone inches, to
make fun for the baby. and the third time he
tried it he broke his neck and left baby father
less.
MRS ANNIE CUMMINGS, Of San Francisco
once the champion roller-skater of the country
now enjoys the distinction of being the only fe-
male employe Of the Southern Pacific Railroad
company.
JACOB SELIGMAN, of Michigan, is a million
aire, and director of nine banks and four rail-
roads. He is less than FIVE feet high and went
to Michigan twenty-five years ago with less than
500 in his pocket
The house in Washington that was bought
last week by Secretary Fairchild contains
twenty-five rooms. with a large conservatory
two stories high and is the largest house owned
by any member of the Cabinet.
A PHYSICIAN living near the sea says that dur
ing the past five years he has noted the hour
and minute of death in ninety-three patients,
as mt tho do
four who died suddenly by accident.
GERMANY has its Ignatius Donnelly in the
person of Mr. Otto Seek, who will have it that
there are three original "Odysseys." which were
all interviewer in one whole by Pisistratus. His
methods OF proof are very like Donnelly's with
the con-Shakespeare, and not bit more val
liable.
REV. VIM N. CLEVELAND, the brother with
whom the President is now visiting, at Forest
port is a Presbyterian preacher who breaches
ut three different CHI urches, alternating between
them and preaching three times every Sabbath.
His charges are six miles apart
Fl. A. P. CARTER, King Kaakaua's minister
at Washington, says that the Hawai- ian language
is a very easy one to learn. 1t is spelled pnonet-
icay. and as every other letter is almost sure
to be vowel. the pronunciation is not at all
difficult. 1t is tradition that English bishop
once learned enough of the language in six
weeks to preach his sermons in it.
lAklNG MIN GOWN a peg. his Is SAID to
have been derived from the custom ordained by
King Edgar, that pegs should be fastened in the
drinking horns at intervals, that whoever drank
beyond these marks at draught should be
liable to punishment. The custom was called
pin-drinking or pin-ncking, and hence the orr
gin of the phrase, He is merry pin" and DISC
of the expression, Take him down peg"
ANOTHER American girl is about to become
European princess. Miss Winnaretta Singer,
daughter of the late Mr.. Singer, of Singer sew
ing-machine notoriety, is going to wed the
Prince de Montfelard, whose title dates from
the time of the Crusades His future mother
in law now the Duchess de Camposelice was
the daughter OF an English confectioner.
LoUNGERs in a swell bar-room of Kansas City
were electrified the other day when they saw
Senorita Guadalupe Suinago a young pretty
and styishlv appareled Mexican girl order and
toss off cocktail with apparent relish. The eirl
was accompanied by her father and several
friends, all of whom belong Mexicos first
families. and were at the time on their way to
Europe
AN abridged translation of Froude's Life of
Carlyle" has been published at Berlin It gives
the text of Bismarck's letter of Generalization
to Carlyle on the occasion of his eghtieth birth
day, and Carlyles reply. Prince Bismarck wrote:
"As you introduced Schiller to your country
men, so you have placed before the Germans
our great Prussian King in his full figure, like
living statue
MRS BARBER, of Allegheny county, New
York, voted for Congressman and for State and
county officers. She was arrested on the charge
of illegal voting. and United States commits
sioner released her. holding that she had violated
no federal law. Mrs. BARRIERS alleged offense
was brought to the attention of the grand jury,
but that body found no indictment. though the
fact of her having voted not denied Mrs
Barber says that she will vote next fall and
thereafter.
ONE of the sensational attractions at Long
Branch is immense hat worn by Col Thomas
Ochiltree 1t is big shell made of split cane.
with inner rim of leather fitting closely
around the head and a wide outer rim which is
held out from the head by means OF cane braces
The Colonel received the hat as a present from
the Prince of Wales, and would be glad to wear
it next to his heart if it not intended to be
worn on the head. He declares that it is all the
style in Calcutta. where 1t is worn by the nobil-
ity; but this does not suppress the cries of
..Shoot the hat.' which often greet the Colonel
as he airs his personal magnifcence on the
strand
THE city authorities in Paris have just tested
an Austrian invention for automatically lower
ing collins into graves without ropes. A coffin
was placed on a kind of rectangular platform
and surrounded with funeral drApery, which
concealed the grave. When spring pressed
the platform, with its lugubrious burden, de-
scended slowly into the earth. The price
of the apparatus is ESQ, and the inventor
states that it is used in Vienna and Milan. the
rate payable being six francs for each burial
The prefecture of the Seine has asked for some
notifications in a machinery before taking it
into use.
PRoF. L. B. ARNOLD says the use of koumiss
only serves cover Tor genteel tippling by
those who are ashamed take their whisky
straight It is too much like putting little
snaksroot in a bottle of whisky and calling it
sbitters, and then drinking the bitters for the
sake of the whisky. Dairymen have sins enough
to answer for in watering milk, aduterating
butter and cheese. selling skim milk for whole
milk cheese. and on, without cheating
innocent people by reducing the value of skim
milk under false pretense, pandering to
vitiated appetites for alcohol They would bot
ter let koumiss alone. It is as big fraud as
oieomargarine.
THE continued action OF tho wind ON the sand